Well, you look so pretty in itHoney, can I jump on it sometime?...Yes, I just wanna seeIf it's really that expensive kindYou know it balances on your headJust like a mattress balancesOn a bottle of wineYour brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

[John] Brough's majority is "glorious to behold." It is worth a big victory in the field. It is decisive as to the disposition of ...the people to prosecute the war to the end. My regiment and brigade were both unanimous for Brough [the Union party candidate for governor of Ohio].LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Till at latest lingering of the night, indeed just as the dawnappear'd,...My comrade I wrapt in his blanket, envelop'd well his form,Folded the blanket well, tucking it carefully over head andcarefully under feet,And there and then and bathed by the rising sun, my son in hisgrave, in his rude-dug grave I deposited,Ending my vigil strange with that, vigil of night and battle-fielddim,Vigil for boy of responding kisses, ( never again on earthresponding,)Vigil for comrade swiftly slain, vigil I never forget, how as daybrighten'd,I rose from the chill ground and folded my soldier well in hisblanket,And buried him where he fell.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Vigil strange I kept on the field one night;When you my son and my comrade dropt at my side that day,...One look I but gave which your dear eyes return'd with a look Ishall never forget,One touch of your hand to mine O boy, reach'd up as you lay on the ground,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

He will deliver you from six troubles; in seven no harm shall touch you. In famine he will redeem you from death, and in war from ...the power of the sword. You shall be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, and shall not fear destruction when it comes. At destruction and famine you shall laugh, and shall not fear the wild animals of the earth. For you shall be in league with the stones of the field, and the wild animals shall be at peace with you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »